Robert langdon, a professor at Harvard University who is on a business trip in Paris, received an anonymous phone call at midnight and learned that Jacques Sauniere, the curator of the Louvre Museum, was killed, so he was called to the museum to analyze and investigate a series of mysterious symbols related to Da Vinci's works of art. In the process of sorting out many grotesque symbols and passwords with Sauniere's granddaughter, sophie neveu, a genius in code decoding, he found a series of clues hidden in Da Vinci's works of art.

He found a key to solve the mystery of history, fought against Neve and a mysterious behind-the-scenes manipulator, and he himself became a hunted man. Unless they can solve this complicated mystery, the shocking secrets and shocking ancient truths that the priory has painstakingly covered up will eventually disappear forever.

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Creation background

Novels are part of the revival of interest in Gnosticism in the late 20th century. The material of the novel mainly comes from the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (page 253 of the original novel is different from other sources, and the name of the book is specifically mentioned). Some people claim that The Da Vinci Code is a legendary version of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, adapted from a series of short films broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the late 1970s.

The similarities between them include the description of La Maria Magdalene as the living holy grail, the description of the sacred origin of the French dynasty, the mysticism involved in the book, the sages of ancient Egypt, the conspiracy in the Vatican, and the application of steganography.

In the book "Holy Blood and Holy Grail", the oil painting "The Shepherd of Acadia" ("Et in Acadia's Self"). Note: The title of traditional Chinese painting is a familiar translation, but it is not accurate. In the history of western art, there are some different explanations about the meaning of Latin names of paintings and the hidden contents in paintings. French painter Pu Sang played the role of Da Vinci given by Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code (many years later, one of the authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail publicly admitted to the press that the whole story was fiction). As for Begent, one of the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the name of Tibin in Brown's story comes from rearranging the letters of Begent.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Da Vinci Code